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The Weaver's Shuttle 

(Webersehiffchen) 

Patented June 16th, 1914. 

Constructed by MARIE EBERl' 



A WORI^D OUT OF NOTHING 



A new Play in Series 



In Combination with the Picture-Postcard 

(FOLDING, NO PASTING.) 



For Home-Kindergarlen, for Small Travelers and Convalescents, and for her Little Cousins. 



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even though it be with sweets, or something 

else to be soon forgotten. 

However if thou keepest the hands of these Little 

Ones filled with Something that will develop and grow 

under their own innocent handling, the resources of 

Joy will never cease to be mutual between them and 

thyself and those to whom they will hand it on. 

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The Weaver's Shuttle 

(Webcrschiffchcn) 

Patented June 16th, 1914 

Constructed by MARIE EBERT 



A WORI^D OUT OF NOTHING 



A new Play in Series 



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In Combination with the Picture- 

(FOLDING, NO PASTING.) 



For Home-Kindergarten, for Small Travelers and Convalescents, and lor her Little Cousins. 



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ILLING their Hands, thou wilt dry their Tears, 
even though it be with sweets, or something 
else to be soon forgotten. 
However if thou keepest the hands of these Little 
Ones filled with Something that will develop and grow 
under their own innocent handling, the resources of 
Joy will never cease to be mutual between them and 
thyself and those to whom they will hand it on. 



All the material in the following series of games, both text and cuts, is original with the author and invented by her; and warning is hereby 

given that the unauthorized printing of any portion of the text and the reproduction of any of the 

illustrations or diagrams are expressly forbidden. 

Copyright 1914, by Marie Ebert 






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INTRODUCTION 

This most clever and original gift has been produced, as have most good things, out of much travail and 
at no small sacrifice on the part of the author. Not the least element of her sacrifice has been the financial 
one, for which I do not hesitate to say that I, for one, hope she will be more than repaid. A fair return for 
such a helpful gift to the child-world is little enough by way of recognition of its value. 

It is the author's hope that she may find voluntary helpers for the sale of this Christmas Edition, who 
will give some or all of their profits to aid the wounded soldiers. Most heartily do I second her hope. It 
should be an easy matter to market so great a boon to the children, in aid of so fine a cause. 

]May I add my sincere hope that this toy — if it be only a toy, my feeling is no less strong — may be taken 
up in a large way by some large concern ; and this, not only for the sake of the kindly inventor, but for the 
sake of the children of the land, and to hasten the fulfilment of the author's wish. 

You who read this, if vou love the children, let others read it, too. 

DAVID Deforest burrell. 
FOREWORD 

Some years ago I wrote a draft of a "Play Book," which I meant to dedicate to my favorites, the 
Little Mothers. It was intended to teach them to make toys such as you see here, each and every one 
developing out of my unit folding box, the Weaver's Shuttle. 

At that time the publishing of the book did not seem practicable, as the material could not be given 
along with it. So I tried to arrange my work in portfolios containing both material and directions. 
Presenting it in this form, I hope to reach the point — not only the children, but their parents and helpers as 
well. 

I thank the many friends who have helped me on my way and have modeled my German-English into a 
suitable shape. Thej^ have been of more comfort to me than they may realize, or than I am able to express. 

My heart's wish is that this little work may become what it is meant to be — a help in home, kinder- 
garten, and convalescent's room. At those slow sick beds of the little ones it has developed, and many a 
dear, suffering child's eyes have brightened seeing it. 

For myself, it went through many an up and down, through endless difficulties. Once a friend, not 
knowing how many were my troubles, gave me an ever so welcome light when at the end of his sermon he 
quoted these little verses : 

"One weary night, when months went by, 
I plied my loom with tear and sigh. 
In grief unnamed, untold ; 

But when at last the morning light 
Broke on my vision, clear and bright 
There gleamed a cloth of gold. 

And now I never lose my trust, 
Weave as I may, — and weave I must, — 
That God doth hold the thread. 

He guides my shuttle on its way ; 
He makes complete my task each day ; 
What more, then, can be said?" 

May every one in trouble and earnest work find the same encouragement that I have found, and feel the 
same glad feeling about that "Weave I must" — not as merely being compelled to, but as being urged by that 
inward pull of the mind and inclination which never goes without hope. 

I should like to close these lines with the same words ending my foreword of those bygone days : Run 
on, then, my little work ! Be as a tiny, ever busy motor-boat, working thy path in the silver furrow, on 
. . . on . . . on . . . "I hope thou wilt not die!" 

When I tried to translate my sunshine verse I could not quite express the high t];ought of the original : 
Die ganze Xacht gewebt, gewacht Doch wie die Hebe Sonne lacht, 

Nach ^londen, die ich so verbracht — Hat golden sie mein Tuch gemaclu. 

Ich schlage ein mit Zahren Die Sonne war's der Gnaden! 

Wie lange soil es wahren? 1st das mein armer Faden? 

Xun wankt mein Glauhe nimmermehr, 

Gott fiihrt mein Schififchen hin und her; 

Es geht durch Seine Hande; 

Wie ich auch weben muss imd will, 

Ich freuc mich und warte still, 

Er bringt's zum guten Ende. 

This sheet is not copyrighted, and is intended to be copied and used in spreading information of my invention. 

-M. E, 



WAISENHEIMAT Zl'M KIXDCRFRBUND 
R. Luehra, I'mealdent 

153 North Street, Jersey City, N. J. 

Jersey City, N. J., May 13th, 1913. 

Some years apo, when we had a danperous slegre of sick- 
ness in our Orphans' Home, Miss Marie Ebert was the ever 
faithful nurse to take care of our afflicted little waifs. At 
that time she Interested the convalescents preatly with all 
sorts of pictures and flpures which she skillfully produced 
with postal cards, a scissor and pencil. In fact, gradually 
our entire little hospital was decorated with the neat work, 
which was pleasing- and instructive for the little ones at the 
same time. 

In the meantime Miss Ebert has kept this kind of work 
up, and Improving on it from time to time, she has now pro- 
duced a serial story, as we might call It. in folding paper 
and connecting the folds with nice selections of picture pos- 
tal cards to a great variety of neat and amusing productions. 

A very important factor is this: It requires very little 
cutting, absolutely no pasting, everything necessary is with- 
in the handy reach of the child and there Is nothing to it to 
strain the eye. 

Undoubtedly the "Weaver's Shuttle" will become an im- 
portant factor In Kindergarten work, and if so, it would be 
just reward to a faithful, child-loving. Christian lady. 
Respectfully, 

J. C. RUD. LUEHRS. 



AV.\I,XrT G.\TE 
Sontli Orange. X. .1. 

South Orange, N. J., May 2, 1913. 

The Society for Lending Comfort to the Sick wishes hear- 
tily to recommend to anv publishers the very attractive and 
practical paper folding game or puzzle. 



"The AVenver's Shuttle," 

invented by Miss Marie Ebert, of 61 Riggs Place, South 
Orange, N. J. 

They feel it would be especially useful in cases of con- 
valescent children or in contagious illnesses, and w^ould he 
glad to order at least ten of the series for use in their work, 
should it be published in the near future. 

MARIE K. PAGE, Secretary. 



West Hoboken, N. J., June 15, 1913. 
My dear Miss Ebert: 

I am pleased to inform you that the toy, "Weaver's Shut- 
tle," you presented to mv children has proved to be a source 
of the greatest plensvire to them. 

The striking simtilicity of the different designs and the 
great variety of prettv results obtainable therefrom make it 
a most interesting and at the same time educat'ng toy. 

For the sickroom it is a veritable godsend, as it tends to 
divert the mind of the child and makes it cheerful, thereby 
hastening recovery. 

From a sanitary point of vle^w it is to be highly recom- 
mended, as in the case of contagious diseases. Its cost being 
low. it can readily be dest'■o^■ed after use. 

Thanking you again, believe me to be 



Yours sincerely. 



GERTRUD LINKE, 
125 Palisade Ave. 



AV. A. AVAKEI,EY, M. D., 

Orange, N. J. 

Orange, N. J., August 15. 1913. 
My dear Miss Ebert: 

I take pleasure in recommending your original "Building 
Unit," the "Weaver's Shuttle." I have seen the result of your 
work with young patients and heartily approve of the 
scheme. 

As It seems especially practical, not needing any adhesive 
material for combining, and as it is not straining for thp 
eyes, I hope that many a nurse will make It her own in 
order to keep up pleasant industry in rooms of convales- 
cence. 

Yours very truly, 

W. A WAKELEY. 



33 Riggs Place, South Orange, N. J., Aug. 23 1913 
To whom It may concern: 

Miss Marie Ebert Is a true educator, and an able demon- 
strator of her own work. 

Having taught eight years, and having watched the prov 
ress of my three children through Kindergarten and grades, 
I do not hesitate to say that Miss Ebert's simple toy will 
teach more of initiative and inventiveness than my children 
have yet learned In school. 

The materials it uses are found in every home, no matter 
how humble, and the toys themselves Imitate every form of 
indoor and outdoor life. 

And it appeals not only to girls, but decidedly also to 
boys, who are apt to take little delight in school handwork 
between Kindergarten and High School. 

In fact, the real delight that children of all ages take in 
this toy is its chief recommendation. They are led on 
through their Imagination to express ideas of their own, 
both artistic and mechanical, and every faculty is stimu- 
lated. For this reason it forms a charming link between 
the younger and the older members of a family. 

Trusting that it may soon find its way Into both homes 
and schools, I am 

Sincerely yours, 
(Mrs. Frank W.) AUSTIANA T. GORETH. 

CALIFORIVIA SOCIETY FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN 
1067 Phelan Building 

San Francisco, Sept. 22, 1913. 
To whom it may concern: 

This will Introduce Miss Marie Ebert, of 61 Riggs Place, 
South Orange, N. J., who has constructed an ingeniou.s 
scheme of Building Units which must interest every educator. 
I have been very much interested in the scheme and will use 
it in my own work as soon as it is published. 

It would seem to me that her scheme can be easily carried 
out and commercialized, and I therefore take great pleasure 
in recommending her to those publishers who have the facil- 
ity and the trade to make her system marketable. Any 
favor shown her will be personally appreciated by the under- 
signed. 

MAXIMILIAN P. E. GROSZMANN, 

Educational Director of the National Association for the 
Study and Education of Exceptional Children. 

167 Ralston Ave., South Orange, N. J., March 14, 1914. 

Miss Marie Ebert's sequence game for children, "The 
Weaver's Shuttle," has been presented to my children sev- 
eral times in its various stages of development. 

It brings always a fresh delight and interest — as much 
when they are in full health and spirit as when under 
necessity of being occupied after illness. 

From the standpoint as a Kindergartner as well as of a 
mother, I can heartily recommend this unique and engaging 
device for sequence work and development, and I hope to 
see it within the reach of all who have to deal with children 
as soon as may be practicable. 

(Mrs. W. B.) HELEN PARKER. 

DR. MEFFORD RUNYON 
South Orange, ]V. J. 

South Orange, N. J., Nov. 2, 1914. 



It has been. 



Fraulein Ebert has demonstrated for me her "Weaver's 
Shuttle." 

One has only to see this device to be at once Impressed 
with its wide field of usefulness. It entertains, amuses and 
instructs. 

The ability to make "something out of nothing" is given 
to but few of us. Miss Ebert has, however, found the art, 
and not only found it, but discovered the method of teach- 
ing it to others, as she has shown in the Children's Ward in 
Orange Memorial Hospital. 

I should be glad to know that any word of mine was in- 
strumental In introducing this simple, wholesome combina- 
tion of work and play into any child's life. 

MEFFORD RUNYON. 

THE SPINING SCHOOL, 
South Orange, N. J. 

South Orange, N. J., Nov. 4, 1914. 

"The Weaver's Shuttle" has been used in our Kindergarten 
with gratifying effect. The teachers found infinite variety 
in its combination, with many possibilities of workinjr ou* 
educational lessons, and the children were delighted witn 
this simple means of expression, which yielded ever new and 
fascinating results to their creative fingers and imaginative 
minds. _ . . 

HARRIET MONFORT SPINING, A. M., Principal. 



NEW JERSEY 
ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAI, AXn DISPENSARY 

14S Srotlnnd Street, Ornnjie. N. .1. 

Orange, N. .T., August 26th, 191.1. 

Miss Ebert has demonstrated the "Weaver's Shuttle" to 
our teacher for the use of the children of the New Jersey 
Orthopaedic Hospital. 

It Is an entertanlng. instructive pastime, and I take pleas- 
ure In recommending it to those who have the care of Invalid 
or convalescent children. 

Very truly yours, 

EMMA H. MacGALL. 



South Orange, N. J.. Nov. 5, 1914. 

We were delighted with Fraulein Marie Ebert's "Weaver's 
Shuttle," a world out of nothing, that she brought to our 
children in the private Sommer Playground on Oakview 
Avenue. 

This tov, though meant for "rainy days," will find a 
welcome, rain or shine, as it did with our Little Folks of 
all ages. We wish the inventor to meet with the same suc- 
cess everywhere the "Weaver's Shuttle" shall appear, espe- 
cially with this Christmas edition, which she made an effort 
to publish in order that some of the profits might help the 
wounded soldiers, an effort which cannot fail to find an 
echo in every child's heart who in these days has brought his 
or her contribution to load the Christmas ship. 

MRS. W. H. BURNETT. 
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South Orange, N. J. 



Dear Elizabeth: — 

Here comes a puzzle for your clever little mind and skillful fingers. Try, but do not bother 
your head too severely; you will find it solved in the directions. 

I hope you will enjoy my pretty "Weaver's Shuttle", which you may stand up as a box or 
flatten down as a certain kind of case. 

You can make use of it in many different ways: as a receiver, a boat, a bed, a wagon. My 
little niece will- be able to make up many stories with it, calling the droll little fellows, "The Winterboys", 
the actors. 

Won't it be a good thing with which to amuse brother on rainy days? Show the cousins 
how to do it, my darling. 

Copy everything and take care to measure your squares exactly. Pinwheel paper works 
very well or some pretty samples of good (non-poisonous) wallpaper. 

When you show the boys, you might let them use lined paper first. Count the spaces be- 
tween the lines in numbers divided by three as: 12, 15, 18. Cut the square according to and let them 
fold the three parts exactly on the line. 

To cut out the ladder and the Winterboys, fold each single piece down the middle after hav- 
ing cut them apart. Draw the faces with dots, not with lines. Do not color their suits. The Winterboys 
wear white flannels and white fur caps. 

Cut the hands of some of the boys loose, so that they may hook on when they climb the 
ladder and to let them join arms, making a chain or circle. 

For the latter roll up a strip of strong paper, undoing it again to roll the inner end outward. 
It will stay like a napkin ring. You can then make your boys dance around the well like the kids in the 
fairy-story when the wolf had drowned. 

Besides some for practicing, I send you five pieces of soft paper (which will not break) in 
two pretty colors, dark and light, differing about half an inch in size. So your shuttles will fit nicely 
one into the other, as the picture shows. 

Let me know when you get it all right and when you have the whole multiplied ten or 
twentyfold. 

I will send more directions for different improvements. 

Yours with love, 

TANTE MARIE. 

Copyright 1914, by Marie Ebert. 



Directions 



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1. ■ Take a square piece of colored paper and fold in three equal parts, 
make the lines A. 



This will hide the color and 



2. Fold the edges B back to A which will make the lines C, bringing the color out again. 

3. To fold right side:— Place B on B to hide the color, then bend the corners down at the upper end 

(right side double, left side single) in even triangles. Fold the lower end likewise. Then fold 
B on A to turn the triangles in. 



4. To fold left side:— Repeat w^hat you did on right side, 
called D. 



Both points as well as the whole edge are 



5. Fold over the two entire points or big triangles and call the newly made lines E. 

6. Open the box, straighten up the points to form ends and pinch corners on line E. Also pinch care- 

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marked and dotted lines are only for the be- 
ginner, while any plain and durable paper is 
good for the Weaver's Shuttle. 

The child will soon be able to do the fold- 
ing perfectly without a diagram. 

Only the outside measurements are re- 
quired but these must be exact. 

For multiplying purposes a small child 
should use a thin wooden square or one of heavy 
pasteboard to draw the outline and to avoid 
slanting folds. 



*The same directions will be given with each succeeding toy 
Oblong will be stated in each particular letter. 

For many lessons with oblong sheet the shorter edges will equal B, thle longer D 
sometimes will turn the longer edges to B and the shorter ones to D. 



Alterations concerning Square or 
Later series 



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PART FIRST- B 

South Orange, N. J. 

Is what I call this letter, and send it, let me say, in parenthesis. I think, Dear Elizabeth, you do 
not need it, you will solve my puzzle without help. Only if you want to compare your work afterwards, this 
letter may be of use. Also in teaching your friends it will be a help to you to have a ready folded Weaver's 
Shuttle. 

Did you find it easy to do the third rule of folding? For this part you may turn the Weaver's 
Shuttle to make the lower end the upper. 

In general try to keep the lines A, B, C, running back- and front (while you are folding), and the 
lines D and E left and right. 

You will understand this when you get difterently measured sheets for other shapes. 

Make a story about the picture. Tell the Winterboys that they shall have a bed. This, it seems. 
they will not believe, they are discontented, grumble and make faces, until the little box is straightened out and 
the owner greatly pleased, takes possession of it. 

Dear child, today I will tell you why the game is called "The Weaver's Shuttle." In German, we 
name it Weber-Schiflfchen (that is. The Weaver's Little Boat). Not all American children have the opportunity 
to see it, and a great many German children have not nowadays. I was up in the Eastern part of Canada, near 
the St. Lawrence River, last summer. Many of the poor country people, who live there, work at weaving home- 
spun goods. They sit at the "loom," a large piece of machine-like furniture, where hundreds of threads are put 
in the strictest order on two big frames, about the height of a table within easy reach of the weaver's hands. They 
are drawn up and down by working the treadle under the table. This operation separates those threads very pre- 
cisely into the even and odd numbers, so that the frame with numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, etc., will go up, leaving 1, 3, 5, 
7, 9, etc., below. Now the weaver pushes the "Shuttle," which has a spool of thread in it, from right to left the 
whole width of the stuff, that he wants to weave. The next time, when the odd numbers of thread are up, the 
Shuttle is pushed from left to right, drawing its long trail between those two kinds of thread. It flies into the 
weaver's right hand, which is open to welcome it, and goes on flying back and forth, much faster than I can 
describe, "darning," not a hole as mother's needle does, but a big piece of goods, toweling perhaps, which, 
becoming larger and larger, rolls up into a nice bolt. It certainly takes a long time, but the Shuttle is a very busy 
little thing, and will not stop until the task is done. Most goods for clothing is woven to-day in factories with 
such large and fast going machines that we can hardly see the coming and going of the Shuttle, and the producing 
of the goods. But in the end it is the same process, the diligent little Weaver's Shuttle draws the thread which 
joins the other ones and so cotton, linen, woolen and silk goods are made. 

My Weber-Schift'chen cannot weave goods, it is only the form when made out of a small square piece 
of paper that led me to give it this name. But if you will "spin" a "thought," you may say that, out of a very little 
beginning, almost "out of nothing," there is woven by and by, a long piece of play-work (Spielzeug), which I hope 
shall be of some good. 

•Greetings from, 

TANTE MARIE. 

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The Weaver's Shuttle 

PART SECOND 

South Orange, N. J. 

Dear Ralph : — 

No doubt you were working the Weaver's Shuttle, as well as Elizabeth. I imagine I see you 
busily measuring out many more squares than my letter brought you. I see you laughing about what the funny 
little fellows, the Winterboys, did with the boxes, and hoping you are experts now, I send "The Winterboys 
Train." 

For this, the Weaver's Shuttle is not made out of a square piece of paper, but has to measure 
exactly 4 by 5}i inches, * so that it will fit the little Vulcan, the Swedish matchbox. This leaves at the sides just 
enough space for the cracker-animals with which the train is to be loaded. Push in a little way one of the boxes, 
that you may make two small cuts in one end of the top. Break out this tiny square for your smokestack, which 
will stand upright, when you have pushed the little drawer back in place. The piece of paper for the latter you 
have to roll between your fingers. Then undo and roll from the other end. It needs no paste. The inside curl 
will hold it. 

The little oblongs of which you have to cut 14 (see pattern a on chart 2), we must slide in the little 
triangles at the end of the car to keep it in shape. 

I chose a red piece of pasteboard for this, because it contrasts with the color of your train. 

Do not paste. Everything must be taken apart again. 

This train is to be pushed as you would push a train of blocks. An accident seems more natural 
that way. Yet if you wish to connect your cars, cut the oblongs double. Crease them well and stand the cars 
upside down while you are joining them by those book-shaped pieces. (Pattern b). 

It was on purpose that I put no wheels to my wagons. I find the toy more simple and safe without 
them, especially for the little ones. If you want them, cut out pieces of cardboard fitting the sides like those 
fitting the ends, and draw two wheels the size of half a dime. (Pattern c). 

What will you make the smoke of ? 

I hope Cousin Harry will come over to work with you. The next letter will be for his birthday. 
Let it be a secret ! It is something interesting. 

Save your picture post-cards ! 

Greetings to all the Cousins, from 

TANTE MARIE. 

P. S. To begin the folding of the Weaver's Shuttle for the little cars, use a piece of pasteboard cut 
like pattern d. This measures 2/3 of the sheet and should be fitted on the left hand corners covering space from 
edge B to right hand A. Fold right hand edge over the measure, then remove it and fold left hand edge under to 
right hand edge A. 

Observing this little rule you will get it right without any trouble. 
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My dear old Harryboy: — 

I send you a Gate-house, like the one I made for you when you had the scarlet fever. You 
aad I will never forget that time. 

Do you remember your messenger-boy on the express wagon? We made it out of two spools 
on a frame of two hairpins. A piece of paper was folded around in the middle (as the druggist folds 
it for powder) with a rubber-band on to keep the boy in place. Did we not make him fly from one 
station to the other getting and ordering things ! 

Now you can make the gate-house yourself, all the more easily because Ralph and Elizabeth 
did help you to practice the foundation. 

Do not forget to show some other boy or girl who does not know how to do the Weaver's 
Shuttle. 

Measure exactly! So far, you know, we have had oblong boxes made out of a square piece 
of paper or a little over a square. Now to make any "square box" we have to measure one square and 
a half. And to make "this particular square box," the one which is to fit the picture-postcard, we have 
to measure TgxlOf inches (7g in. = edge B, 10§ in. = edge D). Stand them up and join them by sticking 
the post cards in as you remember and as the picture shows. 

The heavy brown Lafayette paper that they use in hardware stores, (it is nice and glossy 
with kind of a marble pattern in it, called Extra Drab), serves well for practicing and multiplying. 

In the portfolio with the Winterboys and ladders you will find a pattern showing how to 
bend the hairpins for your express wagon. Put the spools in before doing the second bending. The 
lapped sides must flare a little in order to keep paper and rubber-band aright and make it roll nicely. 

Take care to put the scraps in the waste basket from cutting out your Winterboys. Do not 
leave them for Helen to pick up. It would grieve me to hear mother say that Tante Marie's toy brought 
disorder into the house. The Weaver's Shuttle is meant to take up little space, as everything may be 
folded away easily in the cover. So it does not gather up dust as many beautiful paper toys do, that 
have to be pasted. 

But I hope I must not be afraid of you not being neat, Harry dear, I certainly need not be 
of Newton. I shall never forget when he proudly opened his drawer for me, where he kept all in perfect 
order the little train that we had folded at my last visit. I wish you a very nice birthday and many 
happy returns of the same. 

TANTE MARIE. 

P. S.— Even though the package brings the ready cut material for the gate-house, you boys 
should for multiplying measure the sheets yourself. I want you to use the ruler and be exact about 
inches and parts of inches. Then try it the other way also, using for measure only the postcard. Three 
widths of the card for the length of the sheet and two widths of the card for the width of the sheet. To 
get the right angles correct use a square. You can make one for yourself from a book cover of heavy 
pasteboard. 

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PART FOURTH 

South Orange, N. J. 

To Edgar:— 

Has our little Edgar been waiting for a whole week, as Papa writes, withoat getting a letter? 
And are you in bed with the measles, my dear boy? Never mind, Tante Marie will hurry and have a nice 
big letter for you. It is almost finished. Tomorrow I shall put it in the postbox to be mailed. 

I send you the old Dutch Windmill. Nursie will help you to stand it up. It contains four 
sheets of the Weaver's Shuttle measuring 74 by 101 inches, the longer side equalling edge D, the shorter 
side edge B. 

You learned to do the Weaver's Shuttle when you were with Ralph and Elizabeth. Fold 
four of them and do not stand them up as boxes but bend the big triangles backward to the bottom side.* 
Then slide the four postcards into the small triangles (connecting two shuttles for the bottom-walls and 
two for the top, while the pictures form the middle), as your model picture shows. The top is held 
together by two half postcards cut lengthwise according to pattern A on Chart 4. Crease and slide them 
in around the corners E. You have, in fact, to begin with this to make your cards stay best. So you 
see, the mill has to be constructed from top to bottom contrary to rules of building. Fasten the pinwheel 
between two button-moulds (wooden) by sticking a bit of quill or Japanese wooden bead through the 
whole. It will then turn well on the wire, which you have to bend a curve in as the pattern on your 
chart shows. Pierce a hole in back piece of top card, but in front, lay your wire on the little notch, 
exactly as window shades are put up. 

For flour bags roll some pieces of tissue paper around a little cotton; bend in at the bottom 
and tie on top. No pasting! Stand the fat miller in front and the boy on the ladder. Commit to mem- 
ory the little work, so that when you are out again you can show the rest how to do it, because this letter 
and contents will have to be burned, you know. 

Papa says, you want a little express-wagon like Harry's, so I put a pattern of bent hairpins 
with your Winterboys. Make the four ends of them lap when you put the. two spools on. Then fold the 
paper around.** 

I wish you a speedy recovery and a good appetite for more than oranges, oatmeal and 
omelets, even though these three O's are very good. 

Yours as ever, 

TANTE MARIE. 

P. S.— The square for the pinwheel should measure not less than 8 inches. 

When you cut it from corners to middle be sure to leave one square inch for fastening. 

Maybe nursie will advise you simply to fasten the wheel with a pin and not have it run at 
all. I did so with my own little patients, because it is not good for you to blow much now. Soon you 
will be out again with a pinwheel on a stick which runs better still. If you put the windmill on a height, 
(a box covered with green cloth or tissue paper and some evergreens about), and let your train run in 
the valley between the two stations, you have a pretty landscape. 

Will you do as dear Miss bids you? 

Give her my love and keep loving yourself all the time. 

T. M. 

*See Key to Weaver's Shuttle, Part First-b. 

**See "Gate-house," Part Third. 

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The Weaver's Shuttle 

PART FIFTH 

South Orange, N. J. 

Show your teeth and say beware! 
Alligator, I don't care ; 
Sitting on your back so free. 
You can never snap at me. 

Dear Alexander: — 

This I call bad luck indeed. I am so sorry. Father, mother, and the big brothers, grandma, the 
whole family out in the country for three weeks, and there is hardly one day without rain. Yes, I understand that 
under the circumstances your tent is not the favorite dwelling place. And you had longed so much to camp with 
Indians and soldiers. 

Listen, I will tell you something: Let the Winterboys camp and let them live tent life. They can 
stand anything, because they are "made for rainy days." They will laugh at the whole crowd of disappointed 
people. The "Alligator" also is just fitted for dampness and fog. Color him dark, except his white teeth. This 
will make him look more fierce. He is trained to take the boys riding all around the camp. You can fit three of 
them into the three slits on his back. 

As you need many boys for camping, cut some free hand. To make bigger ones, add a line's width. 
To get them smaller, cut off the line ; while for the given shape, you cut exactly on the line. Cut some for carrying 
sticks. * They have to be cut double, that means, two boys at once, with a scjuare or oblong piece left between their 
feet, according to how far apart you want them to march, carrying longer or shorter sticks. 

Fold your Weaver's Shuttle same way as for the Gate-house and Mill, laying the lines A, B, C, (7ys) 
back and front and D, E, (10^) left and right, but have the pretty side of the paper underneath, that the bottom 
of the shuttle, which becomes the carpet of the tent, gets the pattern. The big triangles are bent up the same as 
for the Windmill** and the two tent cards are fitted in by the slit that you find on the pattern of post-card A, 
Chart 5. 

Pattern B shows the cuts which fit the other two cards to sidepockets of Shuttle. This gives a larger 
floor, makes the tent more solid and adds to its richness and beauty. The tent cards are cut somewhat shorter and 
should be connected on top by a paper-clip Avith a small piece of baby ribbon on it, which will serve as a flag. 

Draw some picture cards for yourself. I could not send 20 post-cards required for five tents, but I 
think you will have gathered plenty of them. Certainly mother received many, while you were out in the country. 
The pretty views and Indian cards are most desirable for the pvirpose. 

Good bye, Alex, be a good boy, and don't forget to show your friends how to do the Winterboys' 
tents. 

■Always yours, 

TANTE MARIE. 
To Mother : — 

Dear Louise, Walter says, the boys are dissatisfied, not being able to work out every one of the lessons shown 
on the enclosed pictures. Please tell them to keep in mind that in the first place, the Weaver's Shuttle wants to bring "Puzzles." 
Some of them, no doubt, your little artists will make out from the model pictures. For the others, they will have to wait until 
the corresponding lessons have been published. 

The boys must not attempt to make No. 20 before they have done No. 8, etc. Nevertheless, if they are bound 
to finish a certain thing, let them write to me, and I will gladly plan the wished for lesson, and send all the patterns and directions 
needed.*** 

It will please me very much to find out which parts of my toy are the most attractive. 

In case the children write, I want them to send some of their best folded work, to show me whether they are 
able or not to make the wished for toy. 

My heariest thanks to you, dear Louise, and to every mother who will help me in my desire to make the darlings 
happy with the treasures I laid up for rainy days. 

Yours, with much sympathy, 

TANTE MARIE. 
* See Gate-house, Part Third. 
** See key to W. S., Part First B. 

*** 30c will bring it, and 50c will answer questions in directions for tzio new lessons. 

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PART SIXTH 

South Orange, N. J- 
Dear Winifred: — 

It pleases me very much to see that you did not forget the stories belonging with the 
Weaver's Shuttle. But you will understand, dear child, that it is impossible to bring all of them in the 
series of my sequence game. The stories you will find in the book: 

The Garden, hung to the wall. The little Bretzel-boy, who got the first picture-card. 

The bad Chinaman, that ran away with the whole prison full of Winter-boys, who were 
punished for not playing right at football. 

The two fierce Rats, who threw over the Elevator. The Omnibus on Electricity. 

The Grandstand and the big parade. 

The four Winterboys under che flag, who went to the four winds founding and building 
homes all numbered in 13, the lucky number of the stripes, and how they came home 

From Winterland with sled-houses and Teddy-bears. 

From Summerland with pretty houses on rolls, which they built for the Rosenkinder. 

From Morgenland riding on the Fish-dragons and 

From Abendland on Bird-aeroplanes, (the latter are folded somewhat like the cannon). 

All these stories are in the book of Bob and Dorothy, the twins, who had the loveliest plays 
on rainy days; all because their elder sisters, Edith and Margaret, helped them so kindly. 

There it is, where the Froggie-game comes in. The Landsknecht mocked by the Winterboys. 

There they run after the Swifts, catching in their trails until at last Happiness is caught, 
who hid away in the Labyrinth. 

By and by it shall all come, God willing. Just try and do your Weaver's Shuttle well. 
Fold neatly, always covering the white edge of the colored side of the paper. Do not let it appear like 
the petticoat peeping out from under the dress. 

Tell the cousins, that I enjoyed the work they sent me ever so much. They shall go on in- 
venting and planning on the foundation of the Weaver's Shuttle. 

Heinz made a beautiful little warship out of it. He will have it protographed. 

Katherine made a train with sleeping-cars, ever so cute, which she folded similar to the 
Gate-house, making berths for the dolls above and below. Ruth made a pretty little washstand. 

I hope you did practise together with the cousins, or you will hardly be able to make the 
dear little bed that I send for your dollies, who have had to wait so long. Ask the boys to help you, if 
you dont succeed. They are carpenters, and will certainly know how to put up bedsteads and to handle 
the ruler. 

For the bed the Weaver's Shuttle is made out of a much bigger piece of paper: 9i by lOi 
inches (9i = edge B and lOi = edge D). When you have finished and tried it, that is: stood it up and 
straightened it out, you have to undo it again, and turn it upside down, in order to fold the sheet of 
tissue paper neatly around bottom of box, on which you first have laid the mattress of cotton.* 

Stand it up carefully now, the open side of the Weaver's Shuttle toward 's the floor, and fit 
the whole postcard for the head of the bedstead into end of box. The one for the footend cut a little 
smaller than half. For the pillow you have to fringe all four sides of the square tissue paper. Then 
lightly rumple the fringes between your fingers and palm. After this straighten the square out again 
leaving the fringes curly. Fold square over the small oblong of cotton and twist together some of the 
fringes, especially at the corners. 

Finally the cover of pink tissue paper is to be fringed on the two sides with your scissors 
before you spread it over the bed, which is now ready for the Dolly who lives in The Ladies' Home 
Journal. 

Good-bye, Love, I hope you will have a good time. 

With many kisses, 

TANTE MARIE. 

*In teaching your little class of friends I would say when the Weaver's Shuttle is all undone 
again: 1.— Lay the sheet for the Weaver's Shuttle wrong side up (which shall become the bottom of 
the box). 2.— Lay the mattress on bottom of box exactly between the four lines A and E. 3.— Lay the 
sheet of tissue paper on top to cover the mattress, reaching over almost to the lines C, and a little over 
line E; 4. — Lay your left hand flat on it. 5.— Carefully sHp your right hand under and turn the whole, 
getting left hand below and right hand on top. Now fold in the sheet by making the box over in the 
same creases that you made before. 

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I. CONTEXTS OF WEAVER'S 
SHUTTLE. 

PART FIRST. 

1. Directions. 

2. Model Picture. 

3. Three Photos of later Series. 

4. Letter to Elizabeth. 

5a. Five Square Sheets of colored 
paper for Weaver's Shuttle. 

ob. Some sheets of lined paper for 
practicing. 

6. Chart : Winterboys and Ladder. 

Part First b: A Key to Weaver's 
Shuttle. 

Next Toy: The Winterboys' Train. 



IB. CONTEXTS OF KEY. 

PART FIRST B. 

L Directions. 

2. Model Pictures. 

3. Two Photos of later Series. 

4. Letter to the Child. 

5. Diagram of Weaver's Shuttle for 

Folding. 

6. A Hand-folded Weaver's Shuttle. 

Next Scenery: The Winterboys' 
Train. 



II. CONTENTS OF THE WIX- 
TERBOYS' TRAIN. 

PART SECOND. 

1. Directions. 

2. ilodel Picture. 

3. Three Photos of later Series. 

4. Letter to Ralph. 

5. Seven oblong pieces of paper for 

Cars and Locomotives, meas- 
uring 4x5^ inches and one for 
the Smokestack. 
5b. Some for practicing. 

6. Pattern on Chart II for 14 ob- 

longs of cardboard to stiffen 

ends of cars. 
Pattern b and c for variations. 
Pattern d for measuring. 

7. Piece of red cardboard to cut 

the 14 oblongs from. 

8. Winterboy Engineer and Cattle 

Boss. 



Note — .Animal-Crackers are needed to 
load the train, and Swedish Match Boxes 
to inake the animals stand and to keep 
them in, when putting the Circus train 
away, each little drawer holding just one 
couple. 

Next Toy: The Gatehouse. 



III. CONTENTS OF THE GATE- 
HOUSE. 

PART THIRD. 

1. Directions. 

2. Model Picture. 

3. Three Photos of later Series. 

4. Letter to Harryboy. 

0. For two Gatehouses four sheets 
of colored paper, measuring 
7^x10^ inches. 

ob. Some for practicing. 

6. Postcards or models of post- 

cards (each gatehouse requir- 
ing two cards and two W. S.). 

7. ^^'interboys : Ladders. 

8. Pattern on Chart III showing 

how to bend the two hairpins 
for the little express wagon. 

Next Toy: The Windmill. 



IV. CONTENTS OF WINDMILL. 

PART FOURTH. 

1. Directions. 

2. Model Picture. 

3. Three Photos of later Series. 

4. Letter to Edgar. 

0. Four sheets of paper for W. S.. 

measuring 7j^xl09^ inches, 
ob. Some for practicing. 

6. Four Postcards (Dutch ones if 

possible) and two halves of 
Postcards (cut lengthwise) or 
models of same. 

7. Sheet for Pinwheel, measuring 

8 inches square. 

8. Pattern a on Chart IV— Half 

Postcard (showing notch) for 
top of mill. Front. 

9. Pattern b showing how to bend 

curve on wire for pinwheel. 

10. Pattern c showing bent hairpins 

for Express Wagon. 

11. Piece of Wire. 

12. Tissue-paper for Flour Bags. 

13. Winterboys and Ladder. 

Next Scenery: The Winterboys' 
Tents. 



V. CONTENTS OF THE WIN- 
TERBOYS' TEXTS. 

PART FIFTH. 

1. Directions. 

2. Model Picture. 

3. Three Photos of later Series. 

4. Letter to Alexander. 

0. Five sheets for Weaver's Shuttle 
(to put-up five tents), meas- 
uring T^xlOj^ inches. 

6. Some Postcards or Models (each 

tent requiring one Weaver's 
Shuttle and four cards, two for 
the tent, two for the floor). 

7. Pattern A on Chart V showing 

slit in tent-card; pattern B 
showing cuts in floor-cards. 

8. Alligator, Winterboys and Lad- 

ders. 



XoTE — As the Camp requires many 
postcards (20 for five Tents), the children 
are expected to save some pretty and 
suitable ones for themselves. 

Next Toy: My Dolly's Bed. 



VI. COXTENTS OF TWO 
DOLLS' BEDS. 

PART SIXTH. 

1. Directions. 

2. IModel Picture. 

3. Three Photos of later Series. 

4. Letter to Winifred. 

5. Two sheets for Weaver's Shuttle, 

measuring 9j^xl0j4 inches, 
each Bed requiring one box. 

6. Two whole and two half Post- 

cards, cut a little shorter than 
half. 

7. Two pieces of cotton for mat- 

tresses, each 3^4x5% and two 
for pillows 2x3^ inches. 

8. White Tissue Paper for two bed 

sheets, each 7x9 inches, and 

for pillow cases, 4^x5% 
inches. 

9. Pink Tissue Paper for two 

spreads each, 5x7 inches. 
Next Toy: The Dolls' Hospital. 



Index of L^nited States and Ger- 
man measurements repeated. 

Part First: Square (German 
quadrat). 

Part Second: 4x5^ inches (car) 
(German, 10^4x13 centimeter). 

Parts Third, Fourth and Fifth: 
Square shuttle, fitting the Postcard, 
7^x10^ inches (German, 18x27 cen- 
timeter). 

Part Sixth: Bed, 9^x10^ inches 
(German, 24x26 centimeter). 



The Weaver's Shuttle has grown 
out of its Unit Fundamental Form 
or Trunk (box or boat-shape). 
Three main branches : 

1. The Frame- or Cover-, 

2. The Step- or Seat- and, 

3. The Basket- or Checker-shape 
Each of these forms has its own 

varieties more or less simple or diffi- 
cult to work. The easiest is the 
Collapsible Box, called Weaver's 
Shuttle, which answers innumerable 
questions when opened and which, 
when closed serves for Walls, Floors, 
etc., in combination with the Picture- 
Postcard. (See Nos. I, II, III, IV, 
V, VI, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13b, 
15, 16, 17, 19 and many more. 

The Frame-shape is shown in Nos. 
13a and 13d : Sledhouses from Win- 
terland, 14, etc. 

The Step-shape and varieties are 
given in Nos. 23, 21, 22, 24, 25, etc. 

The Basket-shape in 18b, 18, 20, 
etc. 

For this Christmas Edition Six 
Parts and a Key to the Weaver's 
Shuttle with thirty-two Photographs 
have been published. 

The later Series shown by the 24 
accompanying Photographs will be 
sent on request (to anyone who is 
able to master the given parts), in 
hand-folded samples and with all di- 
rections needed. 

To answer some parents' request 
a pamphlet, "Thread of Weaver's 
Shuttle," is given containing all 
printed material of the game in or- 
der to keep the Thread when the ma- 
terial out of the Portfolio has been 
worked and played away. 

The Copies are independent one 
from another, though it is desirable 
that the child should begin at the 
beginning. 



PRICES. 

Single copy $0.30 

Set of six Parts, including Key. 2.00 

Thread of Weaver's Shuttle 1.50 

Set of the six Parts, Key and 

Thread of Weaver's Shuttle.. 2.50 

One of the later Parts 30 

Two of the later Parts 50 

For these write to ^I.\RiE Ebert 
South Orange, N. J. 

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